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Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said:

"If the NHS fails, the economy fails. Now isn't the time to say there's ‘no more money,’ but to invest for the future while creating a fairer taxation system so the rich pay a fair share.”

Repost if you agree.
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Expect Labour to announce the reopening of workhouses for the ‘deserving poor’ any day now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Number of additional NHS appointments delivered by Labour in first 7 months
= 2 million.
Number of appointments delivered by NHS in 7 months = 79 million.
Waiting list = 7.46 million.
All adds up to need for new thinking + funding.
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social

Trust and the Palantir question In healthcare we trust—or do we? A breakdown in trust, like the schism in the transatlantic alliance, should make us think again about whether the current model requires reinvention. An anonymous scie...

bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r452

Losing touch with NHS reality: government on trajectory to two tier service Launer recalls a patient vignette in a government pamphlet about a patient called Sarah with sinus pain and hearing loss who is referred by a nurse practitioner for a CT scan. She uses the NHS app to ...

Losing touch with NHS reality: government trajectory to two tier service. bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r345

Gaza’s health system is “completely eviscerated” - what happens now? bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r361

the private sector relies on NHS staff, cherry picks simple cases and undermines NHS services left to cope with complex cases. In ophthalmology this has meant people going blind as funding has shifted to private sector. This is an irrational ideological and non- evidence based choice by government

The Scandal Hit US Health Insurance Company Deeply Embedded in the NHS | Novara Media US health companies which have used AI to deny giving patients care are providing NHS services. The government must stand up to them, argues John Puntis.

Our co-chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social writes for @novaramedia.com about the potential dangers of AI in healthcare and how it can seriously affect patients.

A hard-hitting must read.

novaramedia.com/2025/01/17/t...

Government and NHS boss ‘rewriting history’ on disastrous PFI

Our co-chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said:

"Plans to divert resources to the private sector, seek private investment for infrastructure and embrace the failed market reforms of 25 years ago are a huge concern."
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove...

NHS under threat: Labour is wrong to embrace private sector Diverting public funding to grow private-sector ‘spare capacity,’ actively undermines the funding and staff available to the NHS and results in a worse service, write JOHN PUNTIS and TONY O’SULLIVAN

Our co-chairs @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social & @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social write here about how this govt is wrong to embrace the private sector to provide the country's healthcare.

Read it here 👇

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John Launer: Losing touch with NHS reality A wonderfully absurdist NHS fantasy has been doing the rounds on social media. It stemmed from a case vignette in a government document, Reforming Elective Care for Patients ,1 in a text box illustrat...

Labour’s fixation with the power of the private sector to solve the problems of the NHS lacks evidence and is irrational. @keepnhspublic www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Privatisation is the cause of NHS challenges, not the cure Dr John Puntis has written for Keep Our NHS Public on the dangers of further health sector privatisation, criticising government blindspots in plans announced by the Prime Minister in January. Dr P…

@drjohnpuntis.bsky.social has written for Keep Our NHS Public on the dangers of further health sector privatisation, criticising government blind spots in plans announced by the Prime Minister in January.

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Prioritise safety not A&E target, NHS leaders told Health Secretary Wes Streeting delivers message amid mounting concern about winter pressures.

Ambulance handover and shorter A&E waits can only happen in combination with a functioning social care system.

"Dr Tim Cooksley, of the Society for Acute Medicine, said it was "concerning" the Health Sec felt the need to spell out the priorities for frontline staff."
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Hospitals haunted by £44bn in PFI debts

Our co-chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said:

"This is the true cost of Tony Blair’s ill-conceived PFI deals: hospitals crippled by debt, wards in disrepair, and trusts paying back many times their original investment — decades after the fact.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hosp...